Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-02-04

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The dead locked legislatures do not seem
to be succeeding very well in their efforts
TO extricate themselves
1t is possible that the Senate of the
Fiftieth Congress may be tied by the
election of democrats in New Jersey and
Indiana.
Princeton college is to follow Harvard's
example, and have "women's annex"
This is of course, simply an intermediate
step. All the colleges in the country,
large and small, will eventually open their
doors to young women who desire such
educational facilities rs they have to offer.
The Canadians profess not to believe
that the Senate was in earnest in its ac-
ton on the fishery matter At the same
time, we notice, they are very anxious
that the British government should assure
them that it will stand by them in their
quarrel
Washington letters say that the presi-
dent will sign the interstate commerce
bill, though having doubts of its constitu
tionalty He said to a congressman that
the bill would have to be tried, and the
courts would have to construe it.
The new postal card is decidedly neat
That it is the product Of a democratic ad-
ministration, is evinced by the fact that
VI is adorned by the head of that Jefferson,
whose simplicity" forms such a striking
characteristic of the party in power.
The number of women who care to vote,
even on school matters, in which the sex
takes the strongest interest, steadily de
creases Over 1000 women have some
times voted for school committees in Bos
ton. At the last election only SIS women
voted.
The friends of Mr. Goschen are trying to
make the best of his defeat for Parliament.
They say that it was not at all unexpected
20 them, and that the fact that he came
with nine votes of an election is consider
ed rather triumph than otherwise, under
all the circumstances.
After the undignified display of greedi-
ness and ill-breeding at the Chinese min
ister's bail in Washington, the other even
ing, the Chinese minister will probably
inform his government that Western
civilization is a hoax, and that Americans
are simply human swine.
There are good many champion mean
men in this country, if the statement is
true that Mrs Logan has had to pay more
than $50 i'll telegraph charges on mes
sages of coincidence received the few days
after the generals death. Such condo
lences might well have been spared.
The Senate was not greatly oVeraWed
by the presence of the woman suffrage
delegates 1t rejected the woman's suf-
frage amendment to the United States
constitution by decided majority on the
very day of the meeting of the suffragists'
national convention in Washington.
Word has been received by Secretary
Bayard that convention has been signed
between Nicaragua and Costa Rica to re-
fer their boundary dispute to the presi-
dent of the United States as arbitrator.
1t is little rough to place such additional
duties on our overworked chief executive
The collections of internal revenue dur
ing the first six months of the fiscal yeal
ending June 80, 1887 were S57 sos, SOB, {
decrease of 81 ,O54, $40 compared with the
corresponding period of the previous flsca
year The total collections from oleo
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TO sos l09.
Murders average 80 per annum in Mich
igan, where capital punishment has beer
abolished. This is an enormous mum
Der for the population of Michigan
and not encouraging to the advocate
of abolition of the death penalty il
other States.
Those who suffer from the increases
price of coal should lay the blame wher
it belongs. The Knights of Labor, an
not the coal companies, are responsible
for the present scarcity and rise in price
throughout the country The poor ma
is depressing the poor mana strang
state Of affairs, truly.
Gilbert and Sulivan's new opera, "RuC
dygore,' is said to be failure, The oil
Jections against it are that its title is bad
that its plot is stolen from an old comedy
called cages Ago :" and finally that tn
music is full of "reminiscences of "Pini
fore" Perhaps it is time for the Gilbel
and Sullivan partnership to be dissolved
The accession of Senator Edmunds I
the ranks of those who favor the abolitio
of the internal revenue TAX, which he cal
this remnant OF the unpleasantness
twenty five years ago" is an importaI
one. 1t is not probable, however, that
bill to repeal all the internal revenue taXt
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